On my boat I use a stradic 5000 and mh star seagis rod, and it's more than enough for yellowtail as long as the cuda's/sharks aren't around. When I need to get them to the boat fast I use a bg 30 on a star deluxe. When I fished the head boats, the light stuff stayed at home, but fishing that light stuff is a blast, but you will lose some big fish to the tax man.

The biggest size yellow tail you will ever probably get into will be max 7 or 8lbs so I think a nice inshore rod with some backbone to it should be fine. Ive only ever caught 2 or 3 lbers and used a 4000 series real with 12 pound fluro line and a light medium rod

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